Chris Phare, Co-Founder & CEO

Chris has been focused on commercializing his research on nanooptics for years. He received his PhD from Cornell, and was then a visiting researcher at Columbia University’s Lipson Nanophotonics Group for more than three years prior to founding Voyant.

SteveN Miller, Co-Founder & CTO

Steven received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell, and has been focused on the complete lifecycle of nanooptic sensor development ever since. Before co-founding Voyant, he was a visiting researcher at Columbia University’s Lipson Nanophotonics Group.

Michal Lipson, Technical Advisor

Prof. Lipson pioneered critical building blocks in the field of Silicon Photonics. She is the inventor of over 30 issued patents and has co-authored more than 200 scientific publications. Each year since 2014 she has been named by Thomson Reuters as a top 1% most highly cited researcher in the field of Physics.

Peter Stern, Business Advisor

After a career designing military LIDAR systems, Mr. Stern became a serial entrepreneur, founding, leading, and successfully exiting multiple tech companies. He continues to invest in and help create technology startups.